Improvement in packages for jellies, jams



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N0,156,693, PatenredNov.1o,1s74.

rEJNITEI.) STATES PATENT QEEICE.

vGEORGE H. OHINNOOK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW rYORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKAGES FOR JELLIES, JAMS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 156,693, dated November 10, 1874; application tiled v May 16, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. CHINNocK, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kin gs and State of New York, have invented certain Improve ments in Closed Packages of Jellies, Jams, Marmalades, 817e., of which the following is a specification:

This invention comprises a sealedpaper package of jelly, jam, inarmalade, mincemeat, or similar sweetmeat, made and constituted as an article of manufacture and trade hitherto unknown, and embracing the combination, with an external shell of stiff paper or paperboard, of an internal paper bag providedfor the immediate reception of the jelly, jam, or marmalade, as the case may be.

Figure lis a vertical sectional view of a package made according to my invention, as closed for storage or transportation. Fig.2

is a side view of the same, as opened and in use during the removal of a portion of its contents.

A is a cylindrical shell or case made of stiff paper or paper-board, and tted with a permanent bottom, a, and a removable head, b. rlhis shell or case should be made of inodorous paper, and is preferably water-proofed on its external surface by any suitable means. B is a bag made of cylindrical form, and of somewhat less diameter than the internal diameter of the shell or case A, so that, when illed, it may pass readily into the same. The bag B should, furthermore, be of such length that, when filled to the requisite degree and placed within the shell, its upper part may be folded over its contents, as indicated in Fig. 1. This bag should be made of paper, water and air proofed by treatment with paraftine, or equivalent material which will not impart objectionable taste or odor to the contents of the bag. The bag should be placed within the shell with its upper end open and project ing abovethe top of the said shell; the jelly, j am, marmalade, or like substance then poured, in a hot or melted condition, into the bag, when, by cooling, it resumes its viscous orY comparatively-firm condition. The upper end of the bag is then closed down over the contents, as indicated in Fig. l, and the cover b is placed upon the shell to tightly close the same. Vhen desired, a strip of paper may le pasted over the joint, at a', between the cover and the shell, to retain the cover more securely in place, and increase the air and water proof character of the shell.

It will be seen that, by inclosing the jelly, jam, marmalade, or the like within paper inodorous and tasteless, the deleterious effects that sometimes arise from the absorption of salts of tin when sweetmeats are inclosed in tin cases are wholly` avoided at the same time that there is also avoided that injury to the taste and iavor of sweetmeats which occurs when they are packed in wood having,

as is commonly the case, an objectionable taste or odor. As thus pnt, the sweetmeats may be kept intact for any length of time, and carried or transported from place to place Without injury.

When it is desired to remove or use aportion of the contents of the package the cover bis taken off, the shell is partially inverted, and the bag B and its contents allowed to slide outward a portion of its length, as indicated in Fig. 2. yThis done, the desired portion may be cut olf by the use of a knife, as indicated at b in Fig. 2, after which the'remailling part may be returned within the shell by bringing the latter to its upright or normal condition, and be kept for future use by simply rcplacing the cover upon the shell.

It will be understood that, when desired, the package may be used without the internal bag, and made of round, square, or oval form, as may be preferred.

What I claim as my invention is As a new article of manufacture, the air and water 'tight package of jelly, jam, marmalade, or mince-meat, used with the internal bag, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

eEo. H. oHINNooK.

Vitnesses Y J AMES A. WHITNEY, WILLIAM B. PHAIR. 

